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14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise HDD (Refurbished)
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goharddrivee via eBay has 14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise Hard Drive (WUH721414ALE600, Refurbished) on sale for $112. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member scpe for sharing this deal.
Product Features:
Thanks to Community Member scpe for sharing this deal.
Product Features:
- World's first helium-filled hard drive
- Industry-first 14TB capacity in a standard
- 3.5-inch form factor
- HelioSeal process and 7StacTM design are keys to hermetically sealed drive with higher capacity
- TCOptimized design delivers on key elements of data center TCO: capacity, power, cooling and storage density
- SAS & SATA 6Gb/s models for configuration flexibility
- Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options for HDD-level data security
- "These HDD is used by Datacenter Servers for about 5 Years Period. HDD was refurbished and data wiped with DoD Standard. It's fully tested & passed HGST factory disgnose software test with ZERO Bad Sectors! Since this is a heavy duty enterprise HDD with 2.5M-hour MTBF rating. We are confidence that to honor another 5 Years Warranty from these hard drives"
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/155672990441 goharddrivee via eBay has 14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise Hard Drive (WUH721414ALE604, Refurbished) on sale for $112. Shipping is free.
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These are datacenter drives, they generally last longer than 5-6years (especially with home office and selfhosted server usage where usage is way way less). They just get replaced every 5-6 years because that's usually when they start upgrading systems AND the original manufacturers warranty runs out and datacenters don't like dealing with non-warrantied drives.
People generally buys 2 or more of these drives for redundancy to put in their own server or NAS at home. If you don't know what that means and just want to store your family photos or whatever, just buy new.
IMO brands don't really matter as much as it did 10-20 years ago but https://www.backblaze.c
SMART data definitely had been wiped by sellers/refurbishers.
$112 / 14TB = $8/TB
$79.99 / 12TB = $6.66/TB
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In my first batch I had 1 bad drive. Returned, no issues.
Most of mine had 40 months of use. Have been running just over a year since with no issues.
SHR2 running Xpenology (Synology on non-synology hardware). I also have 12x12 TB HC520 drives in a Synology. Half of those are refurbs and the other half were new.
Good drives. Well packaged. For me worth the transition between failed disk and replacement. I run SHR2 so I have 2 drives in redundancy and 1 hot spare.
I work with Data center storage reqularly so I knew what I was getting.
$112 / 14TB = $8/TB
$79.99 / 12TB = $6.66/TB
https://www.ebay.com/itm/296358906778
OEMs know much better than backblaze or your fav reviewer what their drive lifetimes are and that is the main consideration when they set their warranty term. Think about that for a second - if you are buying a used drive older than the OEM warranty, you should expect that drive to fail at any time because that's what the OEM expects.
Once that's no longer a fact of contention, you can see how useless the "low cost per TB" of used drives really is as a metric for value.
The 12tb and 10tb are more economical.
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OEMs know much better than backblaze or your fav reviewer what their drive lifetimes are and that is the main consideration when they set their warranty term. Think about that for a second - if you are buying a used drive older than the OEM warranty, you should expect that drive to fail at any time because that's what the OEM expects.
Once that's no longer a fact of contention, you can see how useless the "low cost per TB" of used drives really is as a metric for value.
This is a drastic oversimplification. There is more that goes into setting a warranty than the point at which they expect to drive to fail. And the day the warranty expires doesn't mean " The drive will fail at any time", any more than buying the drive and after one year expecting it to fail at any time. And it's also ridiculous to go to the other extreme, assuming that your drive is going to last as long as the average life expectancy. It's a gamble, and of course the 5-year warranty helps mitigate the risk of that gamble. We see the same arguments in every single one of these threads, and they never resolve anything. Everybody has to do their research and make their own decision. In my case, it is worth it to use some of these Enterprise drives knowing that there is a higher risk of failure, but also feeling comfortable that I have multiple backups. If that's not your use case, then buy the new drive and enjoy.
I disagree it was not an oversimplification. The original comment he was responding to was a drastic oversimplification. Saying that warranty is ONLY based on the expected lifecycle of a product is asinine. It definitely has a lot to do with how long you want tech support staff to be trained on an old product with decreasing number of users still using it 5 years out. How long you want to store replacement parts. As well as the litany of things that person stated.
I bought 2x 10tb drives like this (HGST drives). One is dead already, less than a year later. I was using it as my OS drive / Scratch space (I bought 2x brand new 14tb Seagate Ironwolf drives at a modest discount, but still mostly new prices - ouch - to hold my very important data).
But I use them for redundancy, like I said. I lost my warranty card for it, so I'm probably SOL, but at least I didn't lose any data. I bought another drive. BUT - the thing is - it did come with a 5 year warranty. And there is a chance when you RMA a bad drive, you get a brand new replacement, which would be sweet.
I think these can be a good value, for sure, considering the cost of brand new drives, which are like 3x this cost. You're asking to lose your data if you buy just one of these and put anything important on it. Really, you're asking to lose your data if you buy a brand new drive and don't mirror it, and put anything important on it. I've had that happen plenty of times over the years - never again.
While you're at it - get some automation to back stuff up to the cloud, too. More than one provider as well - since through no fault of your own, your account can be terminated and you lose your whole digital life. I've got stuff in a mix of Google Drive, my local NAS device and a non-public AWS S3 bucket.
Ima noob. So do you recommend buying one new and one refurb as backup?
Use these cheap drives as scratch space.